Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1892 - 1104 pages |
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... light lustre looming low; Midst myriad multitudes majestic might. No nature nobler numbers Neptune's night, Opal of Oxus or old Ophir's ores. Pale pyrrhic pyres prismatic purple pours, — Quiescent quivering, quickly, quaintly, queer ...
... light lustre looming low; Midst myriad multitudes majestic might. No nature nobler numbers Neptune's night, Opal of Oxus or old Ophir's ores. Pale pyrrhic pyres prismatic purple pours, — Quiescent quivering, quickly, quaintly, queer ...
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... light. Klop- stock read the stanza, then slowly reread it, while all stared agape. Finally the oracle spoke : " I cannot recollect what I meant when I wrote it, but I do remember it was one of the finest things I ever wrote, and you ...
... light. Klop- stock read the stanza, then slowly reread it, while all stared agape. Finally the oracle spoke : " I cannot recollect what I meant when I wrote it, but I do remember it was one of the finest things I ever wrote, and you ...
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... light). An anagram which Charles II. is said to have left written on one of the windows of King's Newton Hall, in Derbyshire. Princess Charlotte Augusta op Wales: P. C. Her august race is lost, 0 fatal news! An anagram in which British ...
... light). An anagram which Charles II. is said to have left written on one of the windows of King's Newton Hall, in Derbyshire. Princess Charlotte Augusta op Wales: P. C. Her august race is lost, 0 fatal news! An anagram in which British ...
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... light). But most apt of all is the form Doctor Martinus Lutherus : ORom, Luther ist der Schwan (O Rome, Luther is the Swan), an allusion to John Huss's prophecy that a swan should arise from the blood of the goose (Huss). Thomas ...
... light). But most apt of all is the form Doctor Martinus Lutherus : ORom, Luther ist der Schwan (O Rome, Luther is the Swan), an allusion to John Huss's prophecy that a swan should arise from the blood of the goose (Huss). Thomas ...
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... light-complexioned Goths. Their veins naturally appeared through their skin of a blue color, while the blood of the ... Lights, an American political term. When the British fleet lay off New London, Connecticut, during the war of 1812 ...
... light-complexioned Goths. Their veins naturally appeared through their skin of a blue color, while the blood of the ... Lights, an American political term. When the British fleet lay off New London, Connecticut, during the war of 1812 ...
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Page 208 - Thou must be patient; we came crying hither. Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl, and cry: — I will preach to thee; mark me. Glo. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools...
Page 740 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
Page 282 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat...
Page 739 - SWEET Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet Spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My Music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd...
Page 423 - Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long : And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song.
Page 659 - Many of them also which used curious arts, brought their books together, and burned them before all men : and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Page 637 - Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Page 417 - O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Page 317 - I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come ; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What's that, my lord? Ham. Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i
Page 595 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.